But local authorities warned Winters he would be prosecuted if he
started a bonfire in his meeting hall; the resourceful evangelist
changed his plans.

Around his pulpit he piled high the stack of books and magazines which
God had destined him to annihilate. He preached a sermon to light the
fires of faith. His organist and full-voiced choir fanned the flames of
wrath with hymns of the Church Militant.